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...makes the disease so frightening, along with the uncertainty of nearly everything else about it. Despite the progress in medical research so far, huge questions remain about its origin and fundamental nature. In trying to understand AIDS, says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading investigator at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "we have moved from being explorers in a canoe to explorers with a small sail on the vast sea of what we do not know...
...going on in the winter of 1981. In the space of just three months, he treated four patients with an unusual lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PCP is what doctors term an "opportunistic infection," one that strikes people when their immune response is weakened. Typical victims are frail cancer patients and transplant recipients. Gottlieb's four patients departed strikingly from this pattern. Though tests showed their immune systems were severely depressed, all four were young men around 30 who had previously enjoyed excellent health. All were also avowed homosexuals, three of them with a history of many partners...
...report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores, but ulcerating infections...
...Health and Human Services. It was in May 1983 that a French team led by Dr. Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris first published evidence of a new virus that appeared to play a role in the disease. The following spring, Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he had conclusively identified the AIDS virus and produced it in large quantities. At a press conference that many scientists felt undercut the important contribution of the French, Heckler hailed Gallo's achievement: "Today we add another miracle to the long honor roll...
...date has been from men to women, rather than from women to men, suggesting the possibility that women may be less efficient transmitters of the infection. However, at least 14 men have been infected by women, according to Mathilde Krim, a research biologist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, and health authorities are concerned about the possible role of prostitutes in spreading the epidemic. Curran thinks it may prove significant that "about 15% of the men whose cases remain unexplained have a history of sexual contact with prostitutes." The U.S. Army is also concerned about this risk...